Hellion
“The inhabitants of Langston manor considered it a good sign for the coming growing season that not one of the new lambs had been lost. Several cows had calved in very early spring, and three mares had dropped foals. Again, the new offspring were healthy, lively animals, chasing their mothers, and chasing each other through the meadows filled with asphodels. Everything was beginning to show signs of new life by the time the ploughing began. The art of fertilization was not well-developed in Engl...and, but a three-field system of crop rotation had been followed for centuries at Langston. Every third field would lie fallow, while the fields on either side of it would grow green with their crops, one planted in the winter for late spring harvest, the other planted in the early spring for a summer harvest.The common fields were carefully divided into neat strips, and the serfs given strips in each field on which to grow crops. The serf could also pasture any animals he owned in the common pasturage, or allow his pigs to eat acorns in the lord’s woodland, where he might gather firewood for himself.MoreLess
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